Re: 69/8...this sucks

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>]

On 10 Mar 2003, Jeff S Wheeler wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 23:15, Jack Bates wrote:
> > In defense of ARIN, the ice on a net block has to be broken at some point.
> > They could wait 3 years and notify every list every hour of every day for
> > those 3 years and there would still be many networks filtering those
> > networks. The only way to catch it is to notice the block and make contact
> > with the network. In many cases, personal contact is necessary as emails are
> > often misunderstood or ignored.
>
> I repeat my suggestion that a number of DNS root-servers or gtld-servers
> be renumbered into 69/8 space.  If the DNS "breaks" for these neglected
> networks, I suspect they will quickly get enough clue to fix their ACLs.
>
> Add Eddy's suggestion that the addresses all end in .0 or .255 and you
> have a fine machine for cleaning up a few old, irritating problems.

Nice idea in principal (from a purist point of view) but its not practical, I 
hope your not serious..!

Steve